Enabling transformative research and teaching initiatives

Confocal microscope image of a melanoma tumor. Nuclei are blue, tumor associated macrophages are green and vasculature is red. (Bosenberg and O'Hern labs)

A meeting of the monthly Sackler Discussion Group seminar series focusing on research-in-progress talks.

Graduate students from the biological and the physical science working together in one of the Integrated Workshop hands-on modules that is part of Yale's Integrated Graduate Program in Physical and Engineering Biology.

Luncheon following the seminar of a visiting faculty. Such luncheons help form a tightly-knit interdisciplinary community through networking.

Sackler/NSF REU participant is giving a talk on the research he conduced in the Horsley lab.

Hands-on workshop run by visiting faculty speakers Profs. David and Jane Richardson, on the capabilities and uses of various software suites.

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OUR MISSION

A generous gift from Dr. Raymond and Mrs. Beverly Sackler (pictured to the right ) allowed the establishment of an institute for the biological, physical and engineering sciences in the fall of 2008. The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Institute for Biological, Physical and Engineering Sciences brings together faculty from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, The School of Medicine, and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences enabling transformative research and teaching initiatives. Members of the Sackler Institute are committed to a new paradigm that transcends traditional boundaries both between disciplines and between research, teaching, and learning. We have a variety of programs set in place that showcase the innovative ways in which we achieve this.

OUR FACULTY

Currently, there are 50 faculty members across 20 departments affiliated with the Institute. Many of the faculty have ongoing research collaborations, which focus on exploring a variety of exciting problems in biology using quantitative, physical approaches.

INSTITUTE RESEARCH THRUSTS

The research of Institute faculty encompass a broad range of time and length scales and frequently bring together wet lab work with theory, computation, and modeling. Labs affiliated with the Institute explore one or more of the following research thrusts:

cellular shape and motion

force generation and sensing

systems and synthetic biology

informatics & data mining

cell fate

modeling biological processes

biomaterials and bioinspired design

method development

Current initiatives of the Sackler Institute are closely coordinated with Yale’s Integrated Graduate Program in Physical and Engineering Biology (IGPPEB).

Anyone whose research or teaching interests mesh with the vision of the Sackler Institute is welcome to participate and suggest new initiatives.